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North Carolina museum acquires Alco switcher, RDC
This isnt that far from Spencer… guess Ill have to go here too…!
be nice to see that RDC all cleaned up and on display, it was, long ago pretty nice looking
If I am not mistaken, there is no longer a direct rail connection to CSX at Bonsal. The museum’s tracks are physically isolated from the national rail network.
The RDC probably was not built strong enough to be cut into a frt train and would have become a rear-end only move acquiring hellacious switching charges, airbrake prepping, a COTS procedure then set-up for DIT, dead-in-train and train air brake testing.
The S-1: it’s highly likely that the locomotives’ trucks are solid bearing rather than roller bearing.
Why use trucks to move equipment from one rail-served site to another?
Thanks for the above tip!!